From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:53:23 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <20061022185350.GW75501@over-yonder.net> <20061023222131.GB17019@over-yonder.net> <20061024002622.GC17019@over-yonder.net> <20061024163458.GH17019@over-yonder.net> <20061025002713.GN17019@over-yonder.net> <20061025235306.GD17019@over-yonder.net> <45408A53.10400@op5.se> <4540BC6B.1050009@utoronto.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:53:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Followup-To: gmane.comp.version-control.git Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-23-110.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gd5fl-0004aT-U5 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:53:30 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161395AbWJZNxZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:53:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161398AbWJZNxZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:53:25 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:56714 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161396AbWJZNxY (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:53:24 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Gd5fN-0004WO-4f for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:53:05 +0200 Received: from host-81-190-23-110.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.23.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:53:05 +0200 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-23-110.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:53:05 +0200 To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Aaron Bentley wrote: > Andreas Ericsson wrote: >> The only issue I have with bzr's revno's and truly distributed setup is >> that, by looking at the table, it seems to claim that you have found >> some miraculous way to make revnos work without a central server. Since >> everyone agrees that they don't, this should IMO be listed as mutually >> exclusive features. > > The "simple namespace" is both a URL and a revno. > > And therefore, it's just as distributed and decentralized as the web. > > There is very little difference between this: > > http://example.com/mywebpage#5 > > And this: > > http://example.com/mybranch 5 > > In fact, we've been planning to unify them into one identifier. Well, then it is not much simpler than 8-chars sha1. And sha1 is more decentralized, because you can use it when you don't have access to net, and when the _central_ revno server is down. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git